“Confidence matters. When trust in U.S. governance declines, international investors become more cautious.”
Author: rickrosnerorg
Ask A Genius 1620: Geometry, Association Engines, and the Crackpot Index
“If you want to feel like you are a genius—misunderstood, unappreciated by the world—there is a lot of support for that. There is a whole misinformation industry, a delusion industry.”
Ask A Genius 1619: Trump “Ape Clip,” Social Media Chaos, and Performative Outrage
“Even if that technical explanation is plausible, the larger issue became the administration’s response: instead of clearly explaining what happened, they first blamed a staffer and then minimized the racist content.”
Ask A Genius 1618: Kennedy Center Dispute and Why Structure Makes Political Podcasts Less Miserable
“I think the podcast works best when each side can make legitimate points that are not based on nonsense.”
Ask A Genius 1617: High-Range IQ Tests in the AI Era: Mega Test, SAT, and Measuring g
“High-range IQ testing is a sport that very few people play. At this point, with individual intelligence increasingly intertwined with technologically assisted intelligence, you would have to convince me there is still a compelling use for this subculture.”
Ask A Genius 1616: Bouncing, Barroom Safety, and Preventing Predation in America’s Largest Beer Gardens
“Out of the roughly 12,000 underage people I removed, simple math suggests I may have prevented several dozen sexual assaults.”
Ask A Genius 1615: Jesus, Gospel Details, and the Politics of “Christian” Identity
“Community agitator, executed by Roman authorities, no investigation forthcoming..."
Ask A Genius 1614: Enshittification, Tech Decline, and Power
“Technology keeps getting more powerful, but our experience of it gets worse—because the business and cultural layer is about extraction, not improvement.”
Ask A Genius 1613: American Luck, Authoritarian Risk, and Jewish Community in a Fragile Moment
“We have been lucky as a country—but luck is not a permanent defense against instability.”
Ask A Genius 1612: From a 1920s Report Card to Authoritarian Alarm: Found History, Memory, and Power in America
“People tuck things into books—and sometimes they tuck entire histories inside them.”
Rick Rosner 